{"id":343443,"date":"2026-03-23T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343443\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:30:09","slug":"centuries-old-remains-in-wellington-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343443\/","title":{"rendered":"Centuries old remains in Wellington garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Human remains found in a Wellington homeowner&#8217;s garden have been determined to be centuries old, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A resident of \u014cwhiro Bay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/06\/24\/human-remains-found-in-garden-of-wellington-property\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found the remains<\/a> on June 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police detective Constable Sarah Steed said radiocarbon dating showed the remains to be from the 1600s or 1700s, and &#8220;possibly pre-European&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cThis information will now be supplied to the Coroner for consideration,\u201d said Steed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Consultation with local iwi would take place to arrange a suitable burial site, once the remains had been released by the Coroner, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains found in a Wellington homeowner&#8217;s garden have been determined to be centuries old, police say. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-343443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}